Arye Kohavi

Arye Kohavi

Personal details
Born (1967-06-24) 24 June 1967
Occupation Founder, President and Co-CEO, Water-Gen

Arye Kohavi (born 24 June 1967) is an Israeli entrepreneur and innovator. He is the founder, president & Co-CEO of Water-Gen, develops state of the art, awards winner, water and air dehumidification technologies.

Married with four kids, lives in Newe Monosson, Israel.

Early life and education

Kohavi holds an MBA and a BA in Economics and Accounting from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, and served in the IDF as a Combat Reconnaissance Company commander.

Business career

Before founding Water-Gen, Kohavi has been the Founder & Chairman of Composita, a novel E-learning software developer. Kohavi also served as an Independent M&A Manager, Chairman and Director in top-end Israeli companies, and as Co-CEO at Meitav Corporate Finance, one of Israel leading investment houses.

Kohavi, an Israeli Special Forces officer, began working on drinking water solution in 2008 after observing the logistics challenges Israeli forces had during the Israeli-Lebanon conflict two years earlier. After several days, most of the convoys were shot up, so the soldier on the front line was out of water. The idea was to provide independency for the troops on the field an embedded 120-pound system on the vehicle extracts water from ambient air and is capable of creating 12.6 gallons in 24 hours at 75 degrees Fahrenheit and 55 percent humidity.

On June 2009 Kohavi founded Water-Gen a company that design state-of-the-art solutions for supplying water. Water-Gen solutions for the defense sector include: atmospheric water generation (drinking water-from-air), treatment of air conditioning run-off water, and battery-operated mobile water purification units. The company has been selling its products to customers such as the US Army, UK Army, Israel Defense Forces, French Army, and civilian applications such as home-appliance water generator.

Atmospheric water generation can also be regarded as air dehumidification. This field includes common home appliances such as air dehumidifiers, equipment for dry storage, air conditioners, and even laundry dryers, launched in cooperating with global manufacturers.

Awards

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References

  1. ↑ http://globalthinkers.foreignpolicy.com/#innovators/detail/kohavi
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